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In Reply to: We Used To ..... posted by olgentdc on November 29, 2023 at 11:20:08:
Back in the early 50's everybody in our family loved to play gin rummy. Except me. I couldn't and still can't get interested in any kind of card game. Instead of joining in the card game, I would turn on our 1933 Crosley cathedral radio. I would slowly turn the frequency dial looking for the weakest signal. Fading in and out. I'd find one and patiently listen until it broadcast their call letters, then I would grab the ''call book'' and see if someone in the family had already discovered this station. Usually I would strike out - the station call letters and frequency were already entered by someone else in the family, but occasionally I would find a new one and my excitement would break up the hot card game while everyone confirmed my new find. 10 minutes of listening until it was broadcast again. Lots of back-slapping and then they were back to the cards, and I was onward in my quest for another new weak station. Sounds boring, I know, but we had no TV then and in that era people entertained themselves or went to bed. The old Crosley also had a shortwave band and I would often move over there to listen to the mysterious morse code transmissions. Then my oldest brother came home from the army with a nice Hallicrafter short wave receiver. I ''helped'' him string a wire antenna between two big elm trees in our yard. He was an army radio operator and he would decipher the mysterious morse code conversations for us. When he would go out on a date I would turn his Hallicrafter set on and run the bands. He would notice that someone had been fooling with his radio and he would box my ears, since I was the likely suspect. I learned to jot down the dial numbers before I moved them and then return the dials to his settings after playing with his radio. What he didn't know didn't hurt him. The shortwave broadcasts fascinated me and at the age of 40 I studied and learned to transmit and read morse code. After passing my Ham test here in Southern Illinois I convinced said older brother in northern Ohio to take the Ham test himself. He passed the test quite readily and we had lots of early Sunday morning fun pecking out CW conversations on 40 meters.
My favorite AM broadcast stations remain - KDKA in Pittsburg and WBAP in Ft. Worth/Dallas. Some of the oldest in the nation. Most stations are ''W'' east of the Mississippi and ''K'' West of the Mississippi.
WSM is memorable too. I had a radio that I would take to bed with me. It was supposed to be portable, but that was wishful thinking. My brother rigged up an AC power supply for it. It needed to be grounded, and I discovered that I could stick the ground wire in my sock against my ankle and it was happy, even in my upstairs bedroom. I'd fall asleep listening to the Grand Old Opry on Saturday nights.
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